The VFF Test is On!

[wardenclyffe]

I think quoting the press release is kosher. It's just lazy. And safe.

Ward

 

[Audible Click]

Agreed.

 

[VisionFromFeeling]

Not so happy

http://www.nineronline.com/viewpoint/unc-charlotte-s-student-inner-sight-1.2056167

Lots of type-o's that could have easily been detected had someone bothered to proof-read.

I am best described as a Chemistry and Physics major, not just a Physics major.

I have absolutely not made a handful of paranormal claims throughout my life. I presented one paranormal claim in July 2007.

I do not claim to be able to find cures for cancer in foods. I am merely describing what else is involved in the perceptions. I do not claim accuracy with my food perceptions, nor have I made that into a paranormal claim.

When you quote what someone has said in a different text, you must provide the links or references to those sources. Otherwise it is plagiarism, and it is improper practice to provide quotation without giving the sources - otherwise you could just be making stuff up.

There are strict rules and guidelines for how much text one can directly copy from other texts. UNCC students learn that in English 1101.

I for one would like to see references to where the supposed quotes of what I have said came from, also so that they can be read in the context of what they were taken from. It is also misleading since it gives the false appearance that I was interviewed for this article, but I was not.

And, coming from someone who should kind of be on my team (go 49ers!), Mr. Cobbs says about Jim Carr,

He then goes on to state that he thinks she needs to stop diagnosing people just from what she feels from them because he feels that this may lead to something bad happening due to the information people are given. ​

This is spreading a serious misconception since I do not offer medical diagnose to people. I have only carefully shared my perceptions of health with people within this investigation, and not to random people. I am not happy with having the above paragraph included in the article and stated as fact, without anyone bothering to check the facts or even asking me how I feel about the accusations that I would be engaging in offering psychic diagnose. And that is the main reason why I am not so happy about the article.

It would have been very easy for Mr. Cobbs to contact me for some comments, or maybe even an interview. But no. So that is why I do not take this article seriously. And, as Jim Carr has already posted from our private Facebook conversations without asking for my permission first, http://www.stopvisionfromfeeling.co...4/aff/1/aft/171/afv/topic/afpg/1/Default.aspx

So what I'm thinking is that I don't have to feel embarrassed with respect to my university for having a paranormal investigation. I think it is more embarrassing for UNC-Charlotte that someone wrote such a poor quality article!

So what's a mere paranormal investigation, compared to that?
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And that is how I feel about it.

Note that my university is not associated to my paranormal investigation.

 

[volatile]

Anita, seeing as we have your perceptions again: Would you mind addressing a concern I bought up repeatedly in this thread?

Given the literature and evidence on the working of human memory, on what basis can you discount the hypothesis that your vision of the kidney is in fact a false memory?

 

[volatile]

I have absolutely not made a handful of paranormal claims throughout my life. I presented one paranormal claim in July 2007.

One? You have claimed: to see missing organs, to have gotten stoned from looking at cannabis, to be able to tell chemicals apart by looking at them, to be able to see inside metal tanks in order to discern their appearance, to be able to tell back and white people apart based on x-raying their insides, to have seen ghosts, to have come from a distant star, to be able to heal migraines... and probably a hundred more that have skipped my memory.

One? Really?

When you quote what someone has said in a different text, you must provide the links or references to those sources. Otherwise it is plagiarism, and it is improper practice to provide quotation without giving the sources - otherwise you could be just making stuff up.

There are strict rules and guidelines for how much text one can directly copy from other texts. UNCC students learn that in English 1101.

This does not apply to press releases, as any cursory comparison of APP texts and stories in major news outlets will confirm. Reprinting press releases without citation (and sometimes with a made-up name on the byline) is increasingly standard practice in the print media.

This is spreading a serious misconception since I do not offer medical diagnose to people.

You have admitted to having done this NUMEROUS times, and offered to so on this forum.

 

[VisionFromFeeling]

Anita, seeing as we have your perceptions again: Would you mind addressing a concern I bought up repeatedly in this thread?

Given the literature and evidence on the working of human memory, on what basis can you discount the hypothesis that your vision of the kidney is in fact a false memory?

I just know it, ok? I sat there, for several minutes, staring into his back, holding the pen against the paper ready to write "missing left kidney". You are certainly entitled to question that memory, but I know that it was not possibly a false memory and that is why this is a paranormal claim.

One? You have claimed: to see missing organs, to have gotten stoned from looking at cannabis, to be able to tell chemicals apart by looking at them, to be able to see inside metal tanks in order to discern their appearance, to be able to tell back and white people apart based on x-raying their insides, to have seen ghosts, to have come from a distant star, to be able to heal migraines... and probably a hundred more that have skipped my memory.

One? Really?

I have not made claims throughout my life, no.

 

[bookitty]

http://www.nineronline.com/viewpoint/unc-charlotte-s-student-inner-sight-1.2056167

Lots of type-o's that could have easily been detected had someone bothered to proof-read.

I have absolutely not made a handful of paranormal claims throughout my life. I presented one paranormal claim in July 2007.

http://www.stopvisionfromfeeling.com/Discussion/tabid/294/afv/topicsview/aff/2/Default.aspx

http://www.visionfromfeeling.com/paranormalclaim.html

I do not claim to be able to find cures for cancer in foods. I am merely describing what else is involved in the perceptions. I do not claim accuracy with my food perceptions, nor have I made that into a paranormal claim.

http://www.visionfromfeeling.com/foodperceptions.html

 

[volatile]

I just know it, ok? I sat there, for several minutes, staring into his back, holding the pen against the paper ready to write "missing left kidney". You are certainly entitled to question that memory, but I know that it was not possibly a false memory and that is why this is a paranormal claim.

You "just know it"? Does that sound like the kind of sentence a Grade A science student would make?

Have you read the links I provided earlier in the thread that show that the sincerity, clarity and lucidity of a memory have no correlation to its veracity? You cannot know if a memory you think you had is true or constructed. It's all there in the scientific literature.

What kind of science student are you? On what basis can you discard a hypothesis which has decaes of sound study underpinning it in favour of "it must be magic"?

I really do doubt your objectivity.

 

[VisionFromFeeling]

I have not made claims throughout my life.

And, http://www.visionfromfeeling.com/foodperceptions.html

The descriptions of perceptions on this page are to be considered as the subjective impressions of one person and as not based on reality since they have not been proven as correct and there is no reason to assume them to be correct. Scientific literature will describe known composition and effects of consumption of a variety of foods.

 

[volatile]

I do not claim to be able to find cures for cancer in foods.

Have you forgotten writing this:

"[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]In the perceptions I see and feel that garlic targets and destroys cancer cells, starting from its contact with the mouth and stomach, to all the intestines and continuing having its effect on cells once it is in the blood stream. It looks like there is a chemical with one (or several) lone pairs of electrons that reach into structures that are on the inside of cancerous and/or defect cells, binds with those structures and then pulls them out of that cell. The compound from garlic does not itself go fully inside the cell but remains on the outside. It looks like gutting a fish."

Well spotted, Boo.
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[volatile]

I have not made claims throughout my life, no.

But you certainly have made more than one claim - to say otherwise is entirely disingenuous.

Are you lying, or are you forgetting the myriad claims you have made?

 

[VisionFromFeeling]

I think the main reason for why you are questioning the authenticity of my claim that I detected the missing kidney, is simply because it should not be possible. Because for the same reasons, you should be questioning everything else that is ever said by anyone, including your own memories.

I am very sorry to tell you that it is not a false memory. This is a paranormal claim, it isn't supposed to make sense to you. Question it all you like, but it happened. And now we'll see if I can do it again on the IIG Preliminary.

 

[VisionFromFeeling]

Have you forgotten writing this:

"[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]In the perceptions I see and feel that garlic targets and destroys cancer cells, starting from its contact with the mouth and stomach, to all the intestines and continuing having its effect on cells once it is in the blood stream. It looks like there is a chemical with one (or several) lone pairs of electrons that reach into structures that are on the inside of cancerous and/or defect cells, binds with those structures and then pulls them out of that cell. The compound from garlic does not itself go fully inside the cell but remains on the outside. It looks like gutting a fish."

Well spotted, Boo.
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When I say "perception", it refers to a subjective personal experience, like an impression. I think you are interpreting the word in the way that you choose.

But you certainly have made more than one claim - to say otherwise is entirely disingenuous.

Are you lying, or are you forgetting the myriad claims you have made?

I have not made claims throughout my life.

 

[volatile]

I think the main reason for why you are questioning the authenticity of my claim that I detected the missing kidney, is simply because it should not be possible.

Oh, you think that's the main reason? It's the only reason.

Because for the same reasons, you should be questioning everything else that is ever said by anyone, including your own memories.

Yes. This is what the science tells us.

I am very sorry to tell you that it is not a false memory.

There is literally no way to state this as a fact. Have you read the links I provided you with earlier? If you wish to continue claims to being an objective, science-minded empiricist, you simply cannot make this claim.

The overwhelming scientific evidence is that you did not see anyone's kidney, and that your memory of having done so is a manifestation of the well-documented, scientifically-proven phenomenon of hindsight bias / confabulation.

A failure in the IIG test will lend further weight to this hypothesis. If you continue to assert that, even though these powers are not repeatable, they definintely occurred on that occasion, you must abandon all credibility as a scientist.

And now we'll see if I can do it again on the IIG Preliminary.

That word "again" says so very much about you, about your attitude, about your intellectual honesty, about your credibility, about your objectivity, about your skills as a scientist and about you as a human being. And nothing good.

 

[volatile]

When I say "perception", it refers to a subjective personal experience, like an impression. I think you are interpreting the word in the way that you choose.

So... you're making it up?

What differentiates this "perception", your sense of its veracity and its refection of an external phenomenal truth from the kidney claim?

Do enlighten us.

I have not made claims throughout my life.

But you have not made "one" paranormal claim, as you stated above. Correct?

 

[Akhenaten]

When I say "perception", it refers to a subjective personal experience, like an impression. I think you are interpreting the word in the way that you choose.

I would say that the shoe is actually on the other foot with respect to redefining terms.

How do you expect a 'subjective personal experience' to stand up to scrutiny on the 21st?

I have not made claims throughout my life.

When did you start?

 

[VisionFromFeeling]

I detected the missing kidney during the reading. Sorry about that. I know it's provocative. It absolutely was not a false memory.

 

[volatile]

I detected the missing kidney during the reading. Sorry about that. I know it's provocative. It absolutely was not a false memory.

Have you read the literature that explains in great detail why you cannot make that claim? Do you understand why this is not a scientific statement?

 

[VisionFromFeeling]

So... you're making it up?

What differentiates this "perception", your sense of its veracity and its refection of an external phenomenal truth from the kidney claim?

No I am not making it up. Perceptions are a subjective, personal experience that I have. Same as impressions or emotions. The only reason I am investigating the claim of medical perceptions, is because it has correlated with actual real world information, so that is why.

 

[GeeMack]

http://www.nineronline.com/viewpoint/unc-charlotte-s-student-inner-sight-1.2056167

Lots of type-o's that could have easily been detected had someone bothered to proof-read.

Oh, what a drag. That's journalism for you. In your quest to become a psychic celebrity, you should have considered that this kind of thing would happen.

I am best described as a Chemistry and Physics major, not just a Physics major.

Yes, they left out the part about your 4.0 GPA, too.

I have absolutely not made a handful of paranormal claims throughout my life. I presented one paranormal claim in July 2007.

Well, except for the many, many other paranormal claims you've made over the past couple of years. Remember any of these, all itemized nicely over at stopvisionfromfeeling.com? See how easy it is to prove that your comment above is a lie? How do you think the media will handle it when you fail your demonstration? How do you think they'll write you up when they compare your claims to the plain truth readily available in black and white?

I do not claim to be able to find cures for cancer in foods. I am merely describing what else is involved in the perceptions. I do not claim accuracy with my food perceptions, nor have I made that into a paranormal claim.

Except for all the times you have.

When you quote what someone has said in a different text, you must provide the links or references to those sources. Otherwise it is plagiarism, and it is improper practice to provide quotation without giving the sources - otherwise you could be just making stuff up.

Unless it comes from a press release, which is designed and distributed by intent to be used for exactly the purpose you claim is improper practice.

There are strict rules and guidelines for how much text one can directly copy from other texts. UNCC students learn that in English 1101.

Is that the course you failed? Because in a basic college level English class you should have learned a little something about press releases.

I for one would like to see references to where the supposed quotes of what I have said came from, also so that they can be read in the context of what they were taken from. It is also misleading since it gives the appearance that I was interviewed for this article, but I was not.

In your apparent quest to surround yourself with all the attention you can possibly generate, you never gave a thought to how the media handles outrageous claims like yours? It's likely they'll roast you on a spit when you fail the demonstration. You might want to start preparing for that fifteen minutes of embarrassing fame already.

And, coming from someone who should kind of be on my team (go 49ers!), Mr. Cobbs says about Jim Carr,

He then goes on to state that he thinks she needs to stop diagnosing people just from what she feels from them because he feels that this may lead to something bad happening due to the information people are given.​

This is spreading a serious misconception since I do not offer medical diagnose to people. I have only carefully shared my perceptions of health with people within this investigation, and not to random people. I am not happy with having the above paragraph included in the article and stated as fact, without anyone bothering to check the facts or even asking me how I feel about the accusations that I would be engaging in offering psychic diagnose. And that is the main reason why I am now complaining about the article.

Well that's just too bad, isn't it? You've publicly solicited, in violation of California state statute I might add, for people who suffer migraines to meet you in Los Angeles so you can attempt to treat those migraines. Nobody is spreading a misconception about your position, other than possibly going a lot lighter on the reality of the situation than they probably should.

It would have been very easy for Mr. Cobbs to contact me for some comments, or maybe even an interview. But no. So that is why I do not take this article seriously. And, as Jim Carr has already posted from our private Facebook conversations, http://www.stopvisionfromfeeling.co...4/aff/1/aft/171/afv/topic/afpg/1/Default.aspx

So what I'm thinking is that I don't have to feel embarrassed with respect to my university for having a paranormal investigation. I think it is more embarrassing for UNC-Charlotte that someone wrote such a poor quality article!
So what's a mere paranormal investigation, compared to that?
​

A paranormal investigation that shows you don't really have the magical x-ray vision you claim? It's possible the IIG is setting you up to be an example of bogus psychic claims and how easily they are debunked. It might be you'll get a lot of really embarrassing media attention after you fail the demonstration. There will probably be a lot more people reading the threads here and at stopvisionfromfeeling.com, learning the truth about your claims, and realizing that bogus psychic healers are a dime a dozen, but real ones are non-existent.

And that is how I feel about it.

Note that my university is not associated to my paranormal investigation.

And they're probably quite relieved that you are disconnecting them from the potential embarrassment.